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Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president convicted of war crimes, is
fighting a decision to send him to a British jail because he fears being
murdered by enemies from Sierra Leone.

He has asked to be sent to Rwanda instead. Last week, Britain accepted Taylor,
65, after he lost an appeal against his 50-year sentence at the UN Special
Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

In a letter to the court, Taylor wrote: “A significant number of individuals
from a Sierra Leonean background are in detention in prisons in the UK.
Incarceration in the United Kingdom will likely — and